Illinois Fighting Illini vs VCU Rams

NCAA Men's Basketball Championship - South Region - 2nd Round

28-8

Final

	1	2	T
VCU VCU	28	27	55
Illinois ILL	35	41	76

Illinois Fighting IlliniIllinoisILL

26-8

VCU Rams

starters
Lazar DjokovicL. Djokovic#17
Barry EvansB. Evans#5
Nyk LewisN. Lewis#1
Brandon JenningsB. Jennings#0
Jadrian TraceyJ. Tracey#2
bench
Keyshawn MitchellK. Mitchell#22
Michael BelleM. Belle#8
Jordann DumontJ. Dumont#10
Jordan TilleryJ. Tillery#14
Terrence Hill Jr.T. Hill Jr.#6
Ahmad NowellA. Nowell#4
Tyrell WardT. Ward#15
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
29	2	0-6	0-3	2-2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	3
33	11	5-9	1-4	0-1	3	2	1	2	0	1	2	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	5	2-6	1-4	0-0	5	2	2	2	0	1	4	3
21	7	3-13	1-6	0-1	3	0	2	3	0	2	1	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
17	0	0-3	0-1	0-0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	17	7-16	3-9	0-0	7	1	3	1	0	2	5	2
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	11	5-12	1-5	0-0	4	0	1	0	1	3	1	0
	55	23-66	7-32	2-6	29	8	10	8	2	12	17	15
		35%	22%	33%

Illinois Fighting Illini

starters
David MirkovicD. Mirkovic#0
Jake DavisJ. Davis#15
Tomislav IvisicT. Ivisic#13
Keaton WaglerK. Wagler#23
Kylan BoswellK. Boswell#4
bench
Ben HumrichousB. Humrichous#3
Zvonimir IvisicZ. Ivisic#44
Mihailo PetrovicM. Petrovic#77
Blake FagbemiB. Fagbemi#8
Brandon LeeB. Lee#1
Andrej StojakovicA. Stojakovic#2
AJ ReddAJ Redd#5
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
24	7	3-8	1-3	0-0	5	4	3	0	0	2	3	2
14	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	3	0	0	1	1	2	1	0
22	14	6-10	2-5	0-0	11	2	3	0	1	3	8	3
32	14	5-10	2-5	2-4	5	2	2	1	1	1	4	3
34	12	4-12	2-5	2-4	4	3	2	1	0	1	3	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
27	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	3	3	0	2	0	0	3	2
17	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	4	0	0	0	3	0	4	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
1	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	21	7-12	0-2	7-9	4	1	1	0	1	0	4	2
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	76	28-58	9-24	11-17	45	15	11	5	7	12	33	14
		48%	38%	65%

Andrej Stojakovic throws down poster slam for Illinois

0:16

Barry Evans gets the steal and slam for VCU

0:23

Tyrell Ward gets way up for a VCU alley-oop slam

0:21

Game Information

Greenville, SC

Referee:Michael Greenstein

Referee:Brian Dorsey

Referee:Bill Covington Jr.

NCAA Division I

Atlantic 10 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Saint Louis	15-3	-	29-6
VCU	15-3	-	28-8
Saint Joseph's	13-5	2	24-12
Dayton	12-6	3	25-12
George Mason	11-7	4	23-10
Davidson	10-8	5	20-14
Duquesne	9-9	6	18-15
George Washington	8-10	7	19-16
Fordham	8-10	7	17-15
Rhode Island	7-11	8	16-16
Richmond	5-13	10	15-17
La Salle	5-13	10	9-23
St. Bonaventure	4-14	11	17-17
Loyola Chicago	4-14	11	9-24

Big Ten Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Michigan	19-1	-	37-3
Nebraska	15-5	4	28-7
Michigan State	15-5	4	27-8
Illinois	15-5	4	28-9
Wisconsin	14-6	5	24-11
Purdue	13-7	6	30-9
UCLA	13-7	6	24-12
Ohio State	12-8	7	21-13
Iowa	10-10	9	24-13
Indiana	9-11	10	18-14
Minnesota	8-12	11	15-18
USC	7-13	12	18-14
Washington	7-13	12	16-17
Rutgers	6-14	13	14-20
Northwestern	5-15	14	15-19
Oregon	5-15	14	12-20
Maryland	4-16	15	12-21
Penn State	3-17	16	12-20

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